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Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15
Song: A Beautiful Life
Plant a single grain and with proper care you’ll grow a stalk of two or three ears each studded with several hundred kernels. Sow several rows and you’ll harvest food for the table and seed for next year’s planting. It’s a natural law, the law of sowing and reaping, ordained by God. Sow sparingly, reap sparingly. Sow bountifully, reap an abundance.
The Law of Sowing and Reaping is a principle of Agriculture. But it applies equally to Economics. Small investments yield small profits. Large investments produce great fortunes. It applies to Success. Feeble efforts result in little progress. Prodigious efforts bring like achievements.
However the Law of Sowing and Reaping as it applies to mundane affairs is only a general rule. We live in a world where crops fail, stock markets crash, and strong men are broken. “The Law of Sowing and Reaping,” you say, “works in storybook Utopias but doesn’t always apply in the real world.”
Actually it does. We forget that we dwell in the land of fiction, a place of shadow and imperfection. In the Real world, the Law of Sowing and Reaping is absolute. In the Real world the hairs of your head are numbered and not a sparrow falls unobserved.
The good that you sow today in the form of time or talent, word or deed, wealth or wisdom will not be wasted. It’s not imperiled by any risk. In fact, it’s the only investment you’ll make with any certain profit.
Jason Moore
